OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1942, Page 4

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

NATIVE TREES IN THE PARK (To the Editor.) Sir,—l have been intensely interested, while wandering round your very lovely Park in a quest for the native tree section. I have found it, but must confess to a feeling of disappointment, that it is not larger. I notice also that the trees in some cases are being overcrowded, with the result that the rimu, for instance, is being forced out of shape and losing much of its beauty. This applies also to ■other trees that are outstanding in our forest flora. This should be remedied and could be done with very little trouble. May I suggest also that labels on the trees, similar to those in the Wellington and Christchurch Botanical Gardens, would add considerably to their interest, to visitors and would increase a knowledge of our unique flora. Then, in regard to the future, a great deal of educational work might be done if Masterton, for the present at least, transferred its interest from exotics, beautiful though some of them are, to the everlasting native trees. There is -,a large area of waste land over towards the river growing little but weeds. How easily, in time, could this be converted into an area of native trees that would be for the people of the future “a thing of beauty and a joy for ever." —I am, etc., MELBOURNE VISITOR. Masterton, February 23.